Membership Pro 4.0.0

Membership Pro, version 4.0.0. Below are the improvements in this release:

1. A Separate Version For Joomla 4 and Joomla 5

- Raise minimum PHP requirement to 7.4.0
- Raise minimum Joomla version requirement to 4.2.0
- Clean up code, remove the code which is needed to support Joomla 3
- Use latest Joomla API available for Joomla 4.2.0+
- Drop Support For Twitter Bootstrap 2 and Twitter Bootstrap 3
- Convert plugins in the extension to use Subscriber Interface (available on Joomla 4+), thus make these plugins work faster

We will still maintain support for Joomla 3, but mostly bugs fixes and minor improvements. Future improvements will only focus for Joomla 4+.

2. Small Improvements And Bugs Fixes
- Improve Membership Pro - User Files plugin: Added parameter to allow controlling how the files are sorted (by name in ASC or DESC ordering)
- Improve Member Card Feature: Allows using the user's uploaded images in member card.
- Improve Expired Subscribers Export: Showing the expired date in the export result.
- Fixed tags on subscription upgrade message does not work well on multilingual website
- Fixed fatal error on joining group membership on PHP 8.1+

1. Compatible with Joomla 5.1

There were some changes in Joomla 5.1.0 which breaks some of payment plugins. We had to update our payment processing library to make sure payment process working well with Joomla 5.1 (and earlier Joomla versions). This is the most important change in this release

2. Added Membership Pro - Delete User Account

This plugin, if enabled, will delete the user account associated to the subscription record when his last subscription records in the system deleted (mean he does not have any subscriptions in the system anymore). Of course the account won't be deleted if it belongs to certain Joomla user groups (like Super Users, Administrator, Editor....). These user groups can be configured in Exclude User Groups parameters in the plugin

3. Minor improvement to Subscription Exported

Added Subscription Type (New Subscription, Subscription Renewal, Subscription Update) to the export

4. Improve Password Validation

Added code to validate minimum length and minimum lower case characters, exactly the same as how it is validated via Joomla user registration

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Today, I am happy to announce new version of Membership Pro 3.4.0 with the following improvements:

1. Improve Group Membership

In earlier version, the maximum number of group members can be added by group admin to a group membership is a fixed number determined by administrator when setting up the plan. In this version, the maximum number of group members can be a dynamic number, determined by group admin when he subscribes for the plan. Please refer to Group Membership documentation to see how to setup this if you are interested in this improvement. This was a limitation of group membership, finally, I am able to improve it.

2. New Payment Plugins + Update Payment Plugins
- Added MP PayPal Rest payment plugin which uses PayPal Rest API for processing payment (only support onetime payment). Compare to original PayPal standard payment plugin comes with the extension out of the box, this uses new PayPal API, and does not depend on PayPal IPN, so it is more reliable.
- Added MP Stripe Card payment plugin (only support one time payment). It allows customers to make payment using credit card directly on your site without having to be redirected to Stripe and it supports Strong Customer Authentication (same as MP Stripe Checkout, but does not redirect customers to Stripe)
- Update MP Mollie payment plugin: Fixed refund error behavior
- Updated MP PayPal Standard Checkout payment plugin: Added parameters to control button styles.

3. Improve Custom Fee Fields

- Allow Number field type to be a fee field if needed
- Allows using Formula in Fee Values (before, a only fixed value is allowed in Fee Values setting of a custom fee field)

4. Improve Frontend Subscriptions Management
- Add parameter to allow control number of records displayed per page
- Add menu item type to allow export subscriptions directly when clicking on the menu item

5. Improve EU VAT Integration
- Added a parameter to allow hide VAT Number Input for home country (subscribers from home country is being charged tax anyway, so no need for asking them to enter the data)

6. Updated MPDF plugin
- Updated MPDF library to latest version
- Improve code to allow passing custom config variables if needed
- Improve code to allow loading css from css file if needed.

7. Bugs Fixes
- Prevent SMS reminders from being sent to original plan when subscribers upgrade their membership
- Do not enable System - Membership Reminder plugin on update
- Do not generate and send member card via email if member card is disabled for certain plan.
- Fixed fatal error on some content plugins on PHP 8.1+

New version of Membership Pro 3.3.2 with the following improvements:

1. Added Subscription Control Plugin

This plugin allows expiring subscription from certain plans when subscription for a plan active and subscribe for certain plans when subscription for that plan expired

2. Improve Members List

Added parameter to allow choosing the plans you want to display members from. Now, you can display members from multiple selected plans you want.

3. Improve Dashboard

Provide more sales statistic information:

- Added Daily Sales Chart to allow seeing daily sales statistic in the last 30 days in a visual chart
- Added Average day (this month) ( the average income per day) and Projection for this month (the estimation in come) for current month statistic data.

4. Added Clean Emails Log Plugin

Enable this plugin will allow the system to delete emails from emails log automatically when these emails are older than certain number of days (90 days by default)

5. Improve Frontend Subscriptions Management

Allow filtering subscriptions base on selected date range.

New version of Membership Pro 3.3.0 with the following improvements:

1. PHP 8.2 Compatible
- Changes implemented to the extension to make sure it works well with PHP 8.2. So Membership Pro works well with PHP 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2.
- We also updated our Omnipay payment processing library to latest version (Omnipay 3). This libraries is used by some payment plugins. With this update, all payment plugins will compatible with PHP 8 out of the box. Note that if you use PHP 7.2+, these payment plugins will still work well.
- We also plan to raise PHP minimum requirement to PHP 7.4 in near future. So if you are using PHP older than 7.4, a warning will be displayed so that you know about it. You can turn of this warning if you want from Configuration of the extension.

2. Improve Custom Fields
Various improvements are made to custom fields in this release to make it even more powerful:

- Allow showing fee value associated with each custom fee field (in invoice, email messages) using syntax [FIELD_NAME_FEE_VALUE] . For example, if you have a custom fee field with name membership_option, you can use the tag [MEMBERSHIP_OPTION_FEE_VALUE] to show the fee value from that custom field.
- Add Synchronize Data setting to each custom field. If set to Yes, when data for that field is updated for a subscription record of certain users, it will be updated to all subscriptions records of that user.
- When admin update value of a custom field which has options associated with user groups, the user groups for the subscriber will be updated.
- Allow easier overriding output of a custom field if needed.

3. Improve EU VAT Number Validation
- Added a config option called EU VAT Number Validation Provider to allow choosing service which is used to validate EU VAT Number. If the default service (European Union Webservice) does not work, the backup service from vatcomply.com API will be used automatically. That will make sure VAT Number is always validated properly.

4. Frontend Subscriptions Management Improvement
- Allow disable sending reminders from frontend subscriptions management
- Add option to allow hiding Export PDF button

5. Improve Member Card
You can now translate member card to all languages if your site is a multilingual website.

6. Allow using WEBP images For Plan
You can now using WEBP images format for your plans if needed. That helps reducing the size of images loaded on the page, so it will load faster

7. Custom Fields Behavior change

From this version, if you do not select a plan (on members list or subscriptions management page), all custom fields which are configured to be shown on the page will be displayed. Before this version, if you do not select a plan, only fields assigned to all plans will be displayed.

8. Various Language Items Update
Some language items were using with wrong meaning and being updated with this update (English language only)

- Net Amount => Amount
- Gross Amount => Total Amount
- Grace Period in plan settings => Overlap Period

9. Various Bugs Fixes

Please update your site to this latest version of Membership Pro to use these improvements and have these small bugs fixed.

New version of Membership Pro 3.2.0 with the following improvements and some small bugs fixes:

1. Export Templates
This new feature allows you to have different export subscriptions templates. For each export template, you can control:
- The fields you want to be exported with that template
- The ordering of these fields.

After adding export templates, you can choose to use the export template you want while exporting subscriptions. The subscriptions data will then be exported using the format/rule defined in the selected export template.

2. Custom Fields Improvements
- Added option to allow controlling on what position in the subscription form custom fields will be shown: Above Payment Information (Default), Below Payment Information, Below Payment Method.
- Allow a custom field to depend on payment method. When a payment method is selected, the custom field will only be shown for that payment method only. This is useful, usually, when you use offline payment or custom developed payment plugins and want to allow customers to provide more payment data using custom fields.

3. Improve Subscriptions Management
- Added Batch button on subscriptions management screen to allow extends the selected subscriptions for certain amount of times you want (for example, 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours...)
- Added Export PDF button to allows exporting subscriptions to PDF from frontend subscriptions management screen.
- Added a parameter to choose default subscription status on frontend subscriptions management screen.

4. Added Latest Subscription Module
- A new admin module called Membership Pro - Latest Subscription is added in this release to allows displaying latest number of subscriptions in a module position in administrator area of your site. You can use this, for example, to display latest subscriptions in Cpanel/ Dashboard of your site to see these latest subscriptions without having to access to Membership Pro.

5. Other Improvements
- Add Resize Avatar Method config option (Resize or CropRezie)
- Respect Use Email As Username config option on user profile page.
- Update TCPDF library to latest version.
- Improve Members List Column Layout: Add space space between members.
- Remembers Active tab state on pages which tabs is used (Joomla 4)
- Optimize Code of SP Page Builder Restriction Plugin.
- Update MP Stripe Checkout payment plugin to work with latest Stripe API. Please note that you should only update to this latest version of the payment plugin if your Stripe account is configured to use Stripe API version newer than 2020-08-27 (2022-08-01 or newer)
- Added more offline payment plugins (you can now use up to 9 offline payment plugins)

6. Bugs Fixes
- Update PayPal payment plugin to fix an issue causes by change from PayPal system recently. The issue is that some subscription records are Pending while most of other records works as expected.
- Scroll to first error field on subscription form when there is validation errors for data entered for fields.
- Fix Login Redirect On Multilingual website.
- Fix Custom Fields Displayed On User Profile.

1. Category Improvement

Allows you to setup Emails & Messages for each category and all plans belong to that category will use the configured emails & messages (instead of the global emails & messages). It is useful in case you have different plan categories in the system and each category need it own emails & messages

2. Improve Frontend Subscriptions Management

Added new parameters to frontend subscriptions management to allow limit management subscriptions (through this menu item) to certain plans you want only (controlled in Plans and Exclude Plans parameters)

3. Added Batch Discount Feature

This allows you to generate early renewal discount for multiple plans at once. This is useful in case you need to create early renewal discount rules for multiple plans with same settings (save time, instead of having to create individual record for each plan)

4. Added Intro Text Support For Frontend Pages

When you create a menu item to display certain views in Membership Pro (for example, Plans List Page, Subscriptions Management Page), you can now add certain text at the top of the page (giving some kind of instructions for example) before the output of the view is being displayed.

5. Improve Group Membership

Added new config option Show Join Group Link. If set to Yes, Membership Pro will display join group link in user profile (of group admin) so that he can copy this link and send to the members he want and these members can access to these link to join the group (instead of group admin has to enter all these group members himself)

6. Other Improvements

- Improve Subscription Export: Added a new config option to allow exporting plan category in the subscriptions export.
- Improve Custom Field: Allow translating validation error message on a multilingual website
- Trigger onMembershipExpire event when unpublish a subscription (so for example, when you unpublish a subscription, he will be removed from the Joomla user groups which he was assigned to when he subscribe for the plan)
- Fix Coupon Import Error: This happens when the date columns in the source field is formatted as DateTime in Excel.